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AI Field Day 4

AI Field Day 4

February 21–February 23, 2024

#AIFD4

Who: AI

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Allyson Klein

@TechAllyson

Allyson Klein’s insatiable curiosity about innovation led her to found The TechArena covering all things edge to cloud.

Ben Young

@BenYoungNZ

Specializes in the automation and integration of a broad range of cloud & virtualization technologies.

Colleen Coll

@ColleenColl

Orchestrating events, amplifying stories, and keeping tech communities connected—one unforgettable experience at a time.

Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.

@DBerkholz

Founder & Chief Analyst, Platify Insights — the analyst firm for tech platforms. Platform engineering, generative AI, cloud-native apps, and more!

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.

Gina Rosenthal

Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect.

Jim Davis

@JimDavis415

Principal Analyst at Edge Research Group

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Ken Collins

@MetaSkills

Innovation Leader & Award-Winning Product Engineer | AWS Hero | GenAI R&D | Technology Strategy

Paul Nashawaty

@PNashawaty

Top 10 Industry Analysts ranked by ARchitect Analyst Power 100 | Practice Leader | Application Development | Open Source | Business Strategy

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Feb 21 8:00-10:00
VMware by Broadcom Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Chris Wolf, Justin Murray, Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Shawn Kelly
Wednesday, Feb 21 11:00-12:30
Solidigm Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Ace Stryker, Alan Bumgarner, Paul McLeod, Wendell Wenjen
Wednesday, Feb 21 14:00-14:30
VAST Data Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: John Mao, Keith Townsend, Neeloy Bhattacharyya
Wednesday, Feb 21 16:30-17:00
Insights into AI from Futurum Intelligence
Presenters: Stephen Foskett
Thursday, Feb 22 8:00-8:30
Intel Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Ronak Shah
Thursday, Feb 22 8:30-9:30
Nature Fresh Farms Presents with Intel at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Keith Bradley
Thursday, Feb 22 9:45-10:45
VMware by Broadcom Presents Private AI with Intel at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Earl Ruby
Thursday, Feb 22 10:45-12:15
Google Cloud Presents Cloud Inferencing with Intel at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Ameer Abbas, Brandon Royal
Thursday, Feb 22 13:00-14:00
Kamiwaza Presents with Intel at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace
Thursday, Feb 22 14:00-15:00
Intel Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Ronak Shah
Friday, Feb 23 8:00-9:00
Hammerspace Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Chad Smith, Floyd Christofferson
Friday, Feb 23 10:00-11:30
Qlik Presents at AI Field Day 4
Presenters: Mary Kern, Miranda Foster, Nick Magnuson, Ryan Welsh, Sean Stauth
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

Rachael Fritz

Senior Event Manager at Tech Field Day

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


56 Links with Tag #AIFD4

  1. Coverage: Techstrong Gang – December 18, 2024
    • Alan Shimel, Guy Currier, Stephen Foskett
    • Google Cloud, Intel, Oxide Computer Company, Tech Field Day
  2. Coverage: Nature Fresh Farms Leverages Intel and AI to Maximize Yield
    • Girard Kavelines
    • Intel
  3. Coverage: Running Enterprise Industry Specific Private AI with Intel, and VMware by Broadcom
    • Liselotte Foverskov
    • Intel, VMware by Broadcom
  4. Coverage: Google Cloud Re-Architects Infrastructure for AI Era
    • Allyson Klein
    • Google Cloud
  5. Coverage: Unveiling the Role of CPUs in AI Inference and a Growing Trend of Accelerator Alternatives With Intel
    • Colleen Coll
    • Intel
  6. Coverage: The Critical Role of Advanced Storage in AI Data Infrastructure
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Solidigm
  7. Coverage: AI Is Pushing Storage and Data Management Harder Than Ever
    • Chin-Fah Heoh, Gina Rosenthal
    • SNIA, Solidigm
  8. Coverage: VAST Data Releases New DASE Architecture Based on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU
    • Sulagna Saha
    • VAST Data
  9. Coverage: Solidigm and Supermicro Put “Green” in Greenfield
    • Andy Banta
    • Solidigm
  10. Coverage: Solidigm – a Bigger, Faster, and More Efficient Storage for AI
    • Ben Young
    • Solidigm
  11. Coverage: Solidigm SSDs for the AI Era – Small Size, Big Value
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Solidigm
  12. Coverage: Intel Xeon CPUs – How Efficiency Makes It a Top Contender for AI Inference
    • Ben Young
    • Intel
  13. Coverage: Building a Future-Proof AI Foundation With VMware Private AI
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom
  14. Coverage: Solidigm and Why Storage Is Critical to the Success of AI
    • Jeffrey Powers
    • Solidigm, Supermicro
  15. Coverage: Hammerspace Global Data Environment – a Shared Space for All the Data
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Hammerspace
  16. Tech Field Day Podcast: Credible Content From the Community is More Important than Ever
    • Colleen Coll, Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal, Stephen Foskett
    • Tech Field Day
  17. Coverage: Keeping GPUs Fed Around the Clock, With Solidigm
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Solidigm
  18. Coverage: No-Code Machine Learning With Qlik AutoML
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Qlik
  19. Coverage: Exploring Data in the AI Era With Solidigm – New Data Insights Series
    • Allyson Klein
    • Solidigm
  20. Coverage: Nature Fresh Farms – Optimizing Indoor Farming Practices With AI and Intel
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Intel
  21. Coverage: Next-Generation AI With VAST Data: Beyond Storage and Compute
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • VAST Data
  22. Coverage: Don’t Let Storage Be Your AI Training Kryptonite
    • Ben Young
    • Solidigm
  23. Coverage: Deploying AI Cost-Effectively at Scale With Kamiwaza
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Intel, Kamiwaza.AI
  24. Coverage: Compute Requirements in the AI Era With Intel’s Lisa Spelman
    • Allyson Klein
    • Intel
  25. Coverage: At AI Field Day, Qlik Shows AI-Based Analysis Added to Its Platform
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Qlik, The Futurum Group
  26. Coverage: Why Storage Matters for AI: Solidigm Shares POV at AI Field Day
    • Solidigm
  27. Coverage: Google Cloud, the Preferred Platform for Building Competitive AI Models
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Google Cloud, Intel
  28. Coverage: Deciding When to Use Intel Xeon CPUs for AI Inference
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Intel, The Futurum Group
  29. Coverage: Hammerspace Shows Storage Acceleration for AI Training
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Hammerspace, The Futurum Group
  30. Coverage: VAST Data Soars With Industry Heavyweights
    • Allyson Klein
    • NVIDIA, VAST Data
  31. Coverage: Does Storage Matter in AI Inferencing? What About the SSD?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Solidigm
  32. Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Intel, The Futurum Group, VMware by Broadcom
  33. Coverage: Gemma and Building Your Own LLM AI
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Google Cloud, Intel, The Futurum Group
  34. Coverage: Intel Xeon CPUs on VMware vSphere – A Powerful and Cost-Effective Twosome for AI/ML Workloads
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Intel, VMware by Broadcom
  35. Coverage: Defeating Data Gravity? – Hammerspace
    • Keith Townsend
    • Hammerspace, The Futurum Group
  36. Coverage: Taking on AI Inferencing With 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Intel
  37. Coverage: Insights From the AI Field Day: A Futurum Group Overview
    • Paul Nashawaty
    • Google Cloud, Hammerspace, Intel, Qlik, Solidigm, The Futurum Group, VAST Data, VMware by Broadcom
  38. Coverage: From Server Farm to Table: How Nature Fresh Uses AI and CPUs to Improve Crop Yields
    • Jim Davis
    • Intel
  39. Coverage: Transforming Enterprise AI: A Deep Dive Into VMware’s Private AI by Broadcom
    • Ken Collins
    • NVIDIA, VMware by Broadcom
  40. Coverage: Qlik Presents About AI on AIFD4
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Qlik
  41. Coverage: VAST Data Upends Storage in the AI Era
    • Allyson Klein
    • VAST Data
  42. Coverage: Google Cloud Talks AI Trends at AIFD4
    • Allyson Klein
    • Google Cloud
  43. Coverage: VAST Data Operationalizing AI
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • VAST Data
  44. Coverage: Google Cloud at Intel Day @ #AIFD4
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Google Cloud, Intel
  45. Coverage: The Bedrock of AI Is Data With Nick Magnuson and Clive Bearman of Qlik
    • Frederic Van Haren, Stephen Foskett
    • Qlik
  46. Coverage: VMware by Broadcom Presents Private AI With Intel at AI Field Day 4
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Intel, VMware by Broadcom
  47. Coverage: Storage for AI: Data Professional Overview
    • Karen Lopez
    • Solidigm, Supermicro
  48. Coverage: Intel Modestly Lays Its Case for AI — Tech Arena
    • Allyson Klein
    • Intel
  49. Coverage: Podcast – Season 6 – Season Opener
    • Frederic Van Haren
  50. Coverage: Private AI Foundation With NVIDIA: Data Professional Overview
    • Karen Lopez
    • VMware by Broadcom
  51. Coverage: AI in the Marketing Arena With Digital Sunshine’s Gina Rosenthal
    • Allyson Klein, Gina Rosenthal
  52. Coverage: AI Field Day 4 Kicks Off With VMware’s Private AI
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • VMware by Broadcom
  53. Coverage: Intel Day Kicks Off at AI Field Day 4
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Intel
  54. Coverage: Why Storage Matters for AI – Solidigm
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Solidigm, Supermicro
  55. Coverage: The Year of AI at AI Field Day 4
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Hammerspace, Intel, Qlik, Solidigm, VAST Data, VMware by Broadcom
  56. Coverage: Improving the Accuracy of Domain-Specific Information of Large Language Models With Ben Young
    • Edge Field Day 2
    • Ben Young
    • Veeam Software

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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